Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
The Judicial Branch Court Support Services Division (JBCSSD) of the State of Connecticut recently released public information indicating the EyeDetect lie detection technology is now being used for assessment and testing by Adult Sex Offender Services on a multi-year plan beginning Jan. 1, 2021. The contract calls for the state to administer 2,300 EyeDetect and polygraph exams annually. One Converus
Read moreWhile FAC deals only with registry issues, many of our members are having to deal with sex offender probation, too. In reading articles published throughout the United States, one will soon see that it is becoming a common occurrence to have U. S. Marshalls serving on specially assigned task forces to assist local law enforcement agencies in so-called compliance checks
Read moreA story has been running for a couple of days now about a non-compliant registrant “squatting” in a Kansas City Historic Northeast neighborhood. The man clearly needs medical/neurological/psychiatric help from the community. Instead, one resident made it her mission to nag the police until they were finally forced to arrest the man just to shut the woman up. https://fox4kc.com/news/police-arrest-non-compliant-sex-offender-squatting-in-kansas-city-historic-northeast-neighborhood/ OUR
Read moreThe Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that at least 95 percent of all state prisoners will be released from prison at some point. However, convicted sex-offenders almost exclusively face the vengeful, additional punishment of registration under the Sex Offender Registry and Notification Act (SORNA). Generally, under SORNA, an individual who is required to register as a sex offender must register at least once
Read more(Weekly Update #161) Dear Members and Advocates, Things have not slowed down AT ALL for FAC this summer! We’ve had a lot of movement in both Ex Post Facto Plus challenges and we filed our Out of State Challenge. In EPF I, which is currently in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, a reply brief was filed last week and
Read moreBy Paul Shannon . . . How can NARSOL support the courageous men on hunger strike at the draconian Moose Lake civil commitment facility in Minnesota? How can we show solidarity with their 70 supporters who did a car caravan around the facility several weeks ago – and who on July 18 held an amazing public rally at the state capitol?
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